Sentence examples for was punishment from inspiring English sources

"It was punishment for the riots.

General Carlson's decision, he said, was punishment enough.

"I don't think it was punishment," he said.

It was punishment for being a total badass in the previous one.

During the Depression, she said, California legislators decided that losing your house was punishment enough.

Flake claimed the move was punishment for his going against the party by supporting immigration reform.

Being forbidden to go on pretending that they were Americans was punishment enough.

I wondered at the time if this was punishment for messing with Marilynne Robinson's fine novel.

Many Balinese believe the bombing was punishment for their spiritual shortcomings.

That was punishment for the second shot, rather than anything he did in the sand.

Life in prison was punishment enough, Mr. Wilson's lawyers argued, for someone who never really had a chance.